Word: redneck
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that the nation’s politicians have hopped onto the banning-obscenity bandwagon (will anyone think of the children!), Congress will outlaw redneck jokes from television and radio because they “mess with...
...shock and awe" and he included yet another anti-Taliban song, Keith describes himself politically as "an extremely conservative Democrat," and has expressed ambivalence about the motivations for the war in Iraq. Still, he doesn't mind his more-hawkish-than-Rummy image. "Most people think I'm a redneck patriot. I'm O.K. with that...
...despite being Harvard’s poster boy for intolerance, he takes himself surprisingly lightly. He knows most people don’t agree with him, and when goofing around with friends takes “pleasure in fulfilling the stereotypical image people have of me as a redneck Southerner...
...three seemingly innocuous country music singers took the stage in London and announced: “Just so you know, we’re ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.” Within days, after news of their inflammatory comments had penetrated slowly into redneck territory, they had become America’s most reviled figures since the American Taliban. Radio stations destroyed their albums. Enraged fans trashed their CD’s. And, surely, somewhere, Saddam Hussein was smiling, thanking these women for their support...
DIED. SAM PHILLIPS, 80, prime impresario of rock 'n' roll; of respiratory failure, in Memphis, Tenn. In the '50s Phillips' Sun Records in Memphis was the home of raw genius, both black (Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King) and redneck (Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison and that holy hellion of rockabilly, Jerry Lee Lewis). One day an 18-year-old Elvis Presley went to Sun's studio to record two songs for his mother and was soon vamping on the Arthur Crudup tune That's All Right. Phillips legendarily remarked, "That's a pop song, just 'bout...